different between ravine vs crevasse
ravine
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French ravin (“a gully”), from Old French raviner (“to pillage, sweep down, cascade”), from ravine (“robbery, rapine; violent rush of water, waterfall, avalanche; impetuosity, spirit”), from Latin rap?na (cf. rapine).
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?-v?n?, IPA(key): /???vi?n/
- Rhymes: -i?n
Noun
ravine (plural ravines)
- A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
Derived terms
- ravine-buck
- ravined
- ravine-deer
Related terms
- ravinement
Translations
See also
- canyon
- gorge
- gulley, gully
- valley
Etymology 2
From Middle English ravene, ravine, from Old French raviner (“rush, seize by force”), itself from ravine (“rapine”), from Latin rap?na (“plundering, loot”), itself from rapere (“seize, plunder, abduct”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æv?n/
Noun
ravine (plural ravines)
- (archaic) Alternative form of raven (“rapine, rapacity; prey, plunder”)
- 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.:
- And he, shall he,
Man, her last work, who seem’d so fair, […]
Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation’s final law—
Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek’d against his creed—
Who loved, who suffer’d countless ills,
Who battled for the True, the Just,
Be blown about the desert dust,
Or seal’d within the iron hills?
- And he, shall he,
- 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.:
Further reading
- ravine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- ravines on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- ravine at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Averni, Erivan, naiver, naïver, vainer
French
Etymology
From the Old French verb raviner (“flow with force; sweep down; pillage, cascade”), or from the noun ravine, raveine (“robbery, rapine; violent rush of water, waterfall, avalanche; impetuosity, spirit”), from Latin rap?na. Doublet of rapine, a borrowing from the same Latin term.
Pronunciation
- Homophones: ravinent, ravines
Noun
ravine f (plural ravines)
- A small ravine or gully.
- Beginning of a furrowing or formation of a ravine.
Related terms
- ravin
- raviner
- ravinement
Verb
ravine
- first-person singular present indicative of raviner
- third-person singular present indicative of raviner
- first-person singular present subjunctive of raviner
- third-person singular present subjunctive of raviner
- second-person singular imperative of raviner
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From French ravine, from Latin rap?na.
Noun
ravine m (definite singular ravinen, indefinite plural raviner, definite plural ravinene)
- gully (type of ravine)
References
- “ravine” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “ravine” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From French ravine, from Latin rap?na.
Noun
ravine m (definite singular ravinen, indefinite plural ravinar, definite plural ravinane)
- gully (type of ravine)
References
- “ravine” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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crevasse
English
Etymology
From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æs
- IPA(key): /k???væs/
Noun
crevasse (plural crevasses)
- A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
- (US) A breach in a canal or river bank.
- (by extension) Any cleft or fissure.
- 2010, Scott R. Riley, A Lost Hero Found (page 111)
- I moved my left hand to the small of her back, just above her belt-line and stroked the peach fuzz in her crevasse with my fingers.
- 2010, Scott R. Riley, A Lost Hero Found (page 111)
- (figuratively) A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
- 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 105 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
- […] he laments that he can find no physiological phenomenon answering to his subject’s winning a race, or losing it. Between his terminal output of energy and his victory or defeat there is a mysterious crevasse. Physiology is baffled.
- 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 105 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
Translations
Verb
crevasse (third-person singular simple present crevasses, present participle crevassing, simple past and past participle crevassed)
- (intransitive) To form crevasses.
- (transitive) To fissure with crevasses.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.vas/
- Rhymes: -as
Etymology 1
Old French crevace, crever +? -asse
Noun
crevasse f (plural crevasses)
- crevasse
Etymology 2
Inflected forms
Verb
crevasse
- first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of crever
Further reading
- “crevasse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- crevassa (dated)
Noun
crevasse f (plural crevasses)
- (glaciology) crevasse (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field)
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